Actor
David Brinkley
Born 1920 · Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
David McClure Brinkley was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997. From 1956 through 1970, he co-anchored NBC's top rated nightly news program, The Huntley–Brinkley Report, with Chet Huntley and thereafter appeared as co-anchor or commentator on its successor, NBC Nightly News, through the 1970s. In the 1980s and 1990s, Brinkley was host of the popular Sunday This Week with David Brinkley program and a top commentator on election night coverage for ABC News. Over the course of his career, Brinkley received ten Emmy Awards, three George Foster Peabody Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Acting
Powaqqatsi
(archive footage) · 1988
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self (archive footage) · 1962
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Self (archive footage) · 2013
4 Little Girls
Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1997
Agnelli
Self (voice) · 2017
The Seventies
Self · 2015
The Sixties
Self (archive footage) · 2014
Huntley-Brinkley Report
Himself · 1956
Breakdown: 1975
Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage) · 2025
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
Self (archive footage) · 2020
The Emmy Awards
Self · 1949
This Week
Self · 1981
The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage) · 1968
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
Self (archive footage) · 2014
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Self · 1957
NBC Nightly News
Self · 1970
All Power to the People!
Self (archive footage) · 1996
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Self - Host · 1997
Gunsmith of Williamsburg
Narrator · 1969
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Self (archive footage) · 2018
NBC: The First Fifty Years
Self · 1976